Catherine Barr
c/o CLR Communications Ltd.
Suite 200 – 100 Park Royal
West Vancouver, BC, V7T 1A2

Email: cbarr @ westvancouver.com
Website: http://www.catherinebarr.com
Twitter: @catherinebarr

Since 1995, Catherine Barr has reported on all aspects of life in Vancouver. From government and politics to human interest, crime, health and entertainment.
Best known for her social event columns and photographs, her articles have featured hundreds of local and international celebrities along with coverage of all the star-studded galas, fund raisers and invite-only parties around town.

But it didn’t start out that way.

It was only after leaving the University of Calgary, and a career as a nurse, that Catherine returned home to Vancouver to pursue other interests.
“I lived for a while in both Toronto and Calgary, but Vancouver was always home. I was born here, and after university, I couldn’t wait to come back. The best part about being a nurse was working with people and now I still get to do that through my reporting and writing.”

So back to school it was, this time to the University of British Columbia for a B.A. degree in English and to B.C.I.T. for technical training and advanced digital design.
Since then, Catherine’s career as a journalist has grown to include television, radio and multimedia, as well as print. Her articles and photographs have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including The National Post, The Vancouver Province, Vancouver Lifestyles magazine, The Vancouver Courier, The North Shore News, The Westender, The North Shore Outlook and Metro Daily News – Vancouver Edition.

From 1997 – 2000 Catherine was a municipal council reporter for the North Shore News and covered the news and events surrounding the weekly council meetings at North Van City, North Van District and the municipality of West Vancouver. She also wrote the Bright Lights society column and, to this day, has become best known for her pictures and stories of local celebs and events.

Her column “Cat’s Eye” continues to be a popular weekly feature page published in The North Shore Outlook (Black Press) every Thursday and her “Social Eyes” column in the Metro Daily News – Vancouver Edition every Tuesday.
As of August 2006, Catherine added radio to her portfolio on a regular basis and, for the next two years, was featured on CFUN 1410 AM talk/entertainment radio as their go-to events gal with all the best celebrity news and upcoming party information. Her live on-air Vancouver events segment “What’s New Pussycat” was a regular feature every Friday at 4 pm on the “Jenn and Joe Show”.
Since September 2008, Catherine has been a regular on AM 650 (formerly CISL 650) providing all the latest in Vancouver entertainment info and celebrity sightings. Catch her every Tuesday morning at 8:40 am as part of the Gerry O’Day show.

Catherine has also made recent television appearances on Country Music Television (CMT) for five episodes of the Country Star series and has appeared in over 18 episodes on The Daily with Mark and Laura Lynn which is taped here in Vancouver. She has also made appearances on CityTV’s Breakfast Television and on Shaw TV’s Urban Rush series.

Catherine also continues to work behind the scenes as the founding publisher, developer and co-owner of both the West Vancouver.com and North Vancouver.com community websites. Designed back in 1998 primarily as business directories / local news / tourism and information websites for Vancouver’s North Shore, these geo-domain sites get over 3 million hits a month and represent Canada’s wealthiest target market per capita.